The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-17
THE MYSTIC TIE.
The Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge
Convention.

The Knights or PythtaS Grand Lodge
Convention.
The eighteenth annual convention of the
Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias Of
Georgia will be held in Savannah to-day
The committees in charge of the arrange
ments for entertaining the Grand Lodge and
visiting Knights have their plans about per-
fected.
Sir knight Capt, R. F. Harmon, of Du-
Guesclin Division, Grand Marshal of the day,
has ordered detachments of Knights to be at
the Savannah, Florida and Western
and Central depots at 6:15 this
morning to meet tho visiting Knights
and escort them to their quarters. At $50
members of the Savannah lodges, knights
and transient brothers will assemble at
Castle Hall, Bull and Broughton streets, to
participate in the parade. The lodges and
uniform divisions will form on South Broad
street, the right resting on Bull, at 8 O'Clock,
in the following order:
DuGuesclin Division No. I. U. R., Savannah.
Teutonla Division No. 3, I. r., Savannah
Capital City Division No. ;, Y. r. Atlanta.
Augusta Division No. g, U r., Augusta.
Calanthe Division No ,, U. R., Atlanta.
Forest City No l, Savannah.
Teutonia No. z, Savannah.
Calanthe No, %, Savannah.
Excelsior No. s. Savannah.
Myrtle No. 6, Savannah.
The following are the Marshals in charge
of the local lodges: Forest City, Sir Knight
r. r. Booz; Tentonia, Sir Knight John
Schwarz; Excelsior, Sir Knight John D.
Wells Mystic, Sir Knight Otto Vogel;
Calanthe, Sir Knight Il. j. Stewart. The
line OF march will be from South Broad TO
Abercorn, Abercorn to Broughton. through
Broughton TO Drayton, through Drayton to
Bay, through Bay TO West Broad, through
West Broad to Broughton and through
Broughton to Castle Hall, where an al.
| dress of welcome will he delivered
by Sir knight s. B. Adams.
The Grand Lodge will then convene and
enter upon its business. All Knights not
| eligible to sit in the Grand Lodge and their
| ladies will be escorted TO Arlnory Hall.
were collation. will be spread This will
be the general headquarters Of the visiting
| Knights while here. AT 5 o'clock this after
noon the Uniform Division will assemble on
South Broad and march TO the Park extern
sion, where the prize drill and review will
| take place.
In the evening DuGuesclin Division will
| tender a complimentary ball to the visiting
| Knights and ladies at the Guards Arsenal,
which has been tastefully decorated for the
occasion. Tomorrow the picnic at Green
witch Park is the main feature.
The Augusta delegates and the uniform
division will be quartered ut the Pulaski
House. Sir Knight j. 7. Dem,ing, Quarter.
master, and Sir Knights j. Prayer, j. Is.
Keener, A. r. Walton, r. z, Lowell, G. +.
Strauss, A. Asher and A. Rubenstein, ar.
rived yesterday; the others are expected
this morning Augusta sends a good uni
form division and upwards of twenty visit
ing knights. The two Atlanta divisions
will be about eighty strong. with probably
large number of friends, and will be
qusrtered at tho Screven House. The
Brunswick Division has secured quarters at
the Marshall House. A number of dele
gates have already arrived, but the morning
trains viii bring In the most of them.
The uniform divisions are expected to
have from 200 10 80 knights in line. Prob
ably 600 Knights altogether win parade.
Chairman w. 7. Leopold, of the general
committee, desires the Captains of the diff
ferent divisions to report to him ut as early
an hour rs possible to-day, so that street car
and picnic tickets may be given out for the
visiting knights. II Is also announced that
picnic tick cts viii be supplied to all Knights
and their ladies on application to any of the
committee at the Castle Hall or at the
aImory.
Tue Grand Marshal especially requests
that all captains Of divisions meet the Judges
of the prize drill at the armoIy at 1880
o'clock.
Dufiuescln Division had an inspection